The past returns to throw the future into question in Na’ama Zisser’s anguished drama about family secrets and lost love — a constantly shifting soundscape of darkening harmonies and subtle textural gradations that create continuously evolving patterns of tension and release — It’s effectively done — Jay Scheib’s production evokes the threatening atmosphere of the darkened city. Even in the blackout, there is nowhere to hide.

The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of a new work by exciting young composer Na’ama Zisser, directed by Jay Scheib in a soundworld that unites contemporary opera idioms with the music of Orthodox Hasidic Judaism.

The Royal Opera presents the world premiere of a new work by exciting young composer Na’ama Zisser, directed by Jay Scheib in a soundworld that unites contemporary opera idioms with the music of Orthodox Hasidic Judaism.